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Dylan Harper's sister drops unique motivation to help the Spurs win the NBA Finals
Dylan Harper's sister drops unique motivation to help the Spurs win the NBA Finals | Sporting News
Dylan Harper has been stellar for the Spurs in the Finals, but it seems he has a unique motivation to perform.
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Dylan should have boxed out OG on the last play . . . This is why NBA coaches hate playing rookies
Literally the worse take on this board in a very long time. Rewatch the play.
I saw that comment last night and literally shook my head. So stupid
Looked to me like Fox failed to box out. He had an awful end game.
Being a rookie had no bearing on Dylan’s performance. He did just as well if not better than the veterans.
Glad I had friends over to watch the game or I would have gone to bed and missed the greatest comeback in NBA finals history. Dylan Harper played well, but it wasn’t enough. Losing was a real team effort, much like it was when Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey played for Rutgers surrounded by a team of fundamentally flawed players who underperformed.
For most of this series, the officiating has been awful. Wembly fouls constantly and seldom gets called and certainly got away with several flagrant fouls including one in this game. The referees took KAT out of the game in the first half and the Spurs rolled. In the second half KAT played and the Knicks shut down the spurs.
For most of this series, the officiating has been awful. Wembly fouls constantly and seldom gets called and certainly got away with several flagrant fouls including one in this game. The referees took KAT out of the game in the first half and the Spurs rolled. In the second half KAT played and the Knicks shut down the spurs.
Harper took cple threes he shouldn't have in second half (so did entire team, was idiotic) and also had cple turnovers, one was late
His pass doesn't get deflected by Kat on last play, Spurs win. Was a great play where Wemby was the decoy, they cleared out paint so no help was around, and Wmby set pick (hands out push like he always does) Hart slipped slightly lost Castle
His pass doesn't get deflected by Kat on last play, Spurs win. Was a great play where Wemby was the decoy, they cleared out paint so no help was around, and Wmby set pick (hands out push like he always does) Hart slipped slightly lost Castle
Agree- at first not sure pass was deflected but his man was wide open for the win. Glad it didn’t happen.
How do you know the Spurs “win?” Maybe, maybe not; multiple things could’ve happened if the ball doesn’t get tipped.Harper took cple threes he shouldn't have in second half (so did entire team, was idiotic) and also had cple turnovers, one was late
His pass doesn't get deflected by Kat on last play, Spurs win. Was a great play where Wemby was the decoy, they cleared out paint so no help was around, and Wmby set pick (hands out push like he always does) Hart slipped slightly lost Castle
That take makes Stephen A. Smith sound positively erudite.
The closest thing I’ve seen to Kobe since he entered the league. Happy to watch him continue to grow
You might be right. He only cared about being in the NBA. Something was always off with him at Rutgers and he didn’t accomplish anything here and I’m not sure he really cared all that much when he was here. I can’t wrap my head around how people like you are “happy to watch him continue to grow” when he didn’t grow at all at Rutgers and he and Ace accomplished nothing here. I wonder if Duke fans give a crap about Kyrie Irving’s career.
I was a Kobe laker fan, so seeing Ron Harper’s kid model his game after Kobe would have made me a fan without the Rutgers/NJ connection. We all know there’s a million reasons we weren’t better last year and he wasn’t one of them. So yes, I’ll continue to root for him as I do with all Rutgers alums in all sports.
Re: the consternation over Dylan having team success now and not with us: going to go out on a limb and say last year's RU team would have made the tourney with a world historical paint-erasing defensive menace at the 5. Definitely Dylan and Ace's fault we didn't have one.
It’s not that simple. We lost to teams like Kennesaw St. It just makes no sense. Another way of thinking about it - if the answer was really that the surrounding cast was just “that bad”, how did last year’s team then win almost as many games? Only one less.
Think about it. We’re quick to point out Dylan and Ace had no 5 to work with but they had Lathan in addition to Ogbole and Bryce. The 2025-26 team didn’t have anyone else. Both teams had Grant. Powers didn’t do anything that Dercack couldn’t have done. Zrno was worse than Acuff. Nwuli wasn’t better than Martini. Was it Lino who was the X factor because we are otherwise basically saying having Ace and Dylan over Buchanan and Tariq was only worth one extra win.